Getting the price down to, an unconfirmed, 1499 Yuan ($240 ZTE have had to ditch the 1080 display of the S and have given the U956 a 720 HD 1280 x 720 screen. The quad-core CPU has also been downgraded to a more cost-effective Mediatek MT6589 unit, but performance is expected still be pretty amazing.

Being an MTK phone we do see dual-sim support for TD-SCDMa and GSM along with an 8 mega-pixel rear camera.

As the ZTE U959 has already received its network license, and we are now seeing real photos emerging, we can expect to see the phoneon sale very soon.